Herald Sun
Thursday 11/12/2008 Page: 43
WARSAW - Pilot drilling using new technology has revealed awesome potential for geothermal power in East Africa's Great Rift Valley, UN talks on climate change heard in Poland yesterday. Engineers using new seismic tools to locate hot spots hit powerful veins of steam, warmed by heat from Earth's core, near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
Several wells have been identified, most of them generating four to five megawatts of electricity, while one has a "bumper" capacity of eight megawatts, they said. The geothermal potential from the Rift Valley is "at least 7000 megawatts," providing a mighty contribution to the energy needs of 12 countries in East Africa, environment official Monique Barbut said.
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